earthquakes:
There's an interesting news story in Nature* about a distributed computing project with a seismological twist. The proposed aim of the Quake-Catcher project is to hack and collate data from laptop accelerometers - designed to protect the hard drive when...
Posted on March 27, 2008 12:46 PM • 5 Comments •
An earthquake in the UK? What's that about?
Posted on February 27, 2008 10:05 AM • 10 Comments •
When I was out in New Zealand doing fieldwork for my PhD, I spent most of my time based in Gisborne, a sleepy little town on the east coast of the North Island. Over Christmas, it seems that Gisborne was...
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Posted on January 25, 2008 9:27 AM • 2 Comments •
For all that we currently know about earthquakes and faulting, seismology remains primarily a descriptive science. We can tell where an earthquake occurred, and how powerful it was, but we still don't understand why some ruptures trigger failure over a...
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Posted on October 6, 2007 11:30 AM • 4 Comments •
Questions arising from the Indonesian quakes
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Posted on September 17, 2007 7:29 AM • 10 Comments •
Those clever Japanese have done it again - whilst seismologists look in increasingly unlikely places for a method of reliably predicting earthquakes, they've produced a little box which provides a timely warning of impending doom: A broadband and communications provider...
Posted on September 11, 2007 10:56 AM • 7 Comments •
And it's a big one - magnitude 8.0 according to the USGS. The preliminary moment tensor solution indicates a shallowly dipping thrust fault, with a rupture depth of 33 km. So this looks like a subduction thrust earthquake (the convergent...
Posted on August 16, 2007 5:53 PM • 3 Comments •
Should scientists add a 'lay statement' for public consumption to their papers?
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Posted on August 7, 2007 11:41 AM • 4 Comments •
Was the mud volcano triggered by an earthquake rather than poor drilling practice?
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Posted on August 2, 2007 8:00 AM • 1 Comments •
There have been some reports of a magnitude 6.1 earthquake shaking things up in eastern Indonesia. More info from the USGS: The media report that there was a tsunami warning issued, which seemed a little odd: you're not going to...
Posted on July 26, 2007 10:43 AM • 2 Comments •
Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, he is now a post-doc at the University of Johannesburg. 
